Entries by David Anderson

Kevin Drum is defending Bernie Sander against the Wall Street Journal but I think he is implying something at the end of his piece that is very wrong. His logic would imply that Vermont would be getting ready to ramp up for single state single payer with a go-live date of 1/1/17. Then there’s the […]

I’ve been at work for a couple of hours already but I’ve not had my coffee. I have a three hour drive to a game in a couple hours. Coffee dehydrates me so I avoid it on game day. This game is my first center whistle at a level that is most likely my career […]

Medicare has a low administrative rate. Medicare pays roughly 4% to 5% of total expenses for administrative costs. The best run health insurers have slightly higher administrative expense ratios (8% to 10%). Is this a slam dunk that Medicare is inherently more efficient than private insurers? Not neccessarily. I want us to consider the following […]

Charles Gaba pointed out an interesting article on Pennsylvania’s conversion of the Healthy PA Medicaid expansion –that could not be called a Medicaid expansion — to a straight up Medicaid expansion. The state projects that embracing Medicaid expansion will save the state a massive amount of money to cover the same population. According to Sec. […]